Month: October 2009

Sir Tim Berners-Lee, and those stupid slashes

The man largely credited with devising the World Wide Web as we know it today is sorry:

“Really, if you think about it, it doesn’t need the //. I could have designed it not to have the //”

We laugh, sure, because it’s just a couple characters, and for those of us who were weened on older browsers typing them out is second nature. But the sheer on-the-phone-with-mom inconvenience caused by this oversight is impossible to quantify.

For more of these “Inventions Regretted by Their Inventors”, see the slideshow at http://www.businessinsider.com/eight-regrettable-tech-inventions-regretted-20…

Great slideshow